{UAH} Time TO Go, Saleh Tells M7
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Time TO Go, Saleh Tells M7
LOST PATIENCE: Gen Salim Saleh
Just like many other key power brokers in NRM, Gen Salim Saleh believes the MPs haven't helped increase Museveni's popularity in their ongoing Sub County-based tours. Sources have revealed that there is growing frustration amongst Museveni's inner-most circles that the current crop of NRM MPs can't be relied on to deliver the 5th term for President Museveni.
We are told in a recent interaction Gen Saleh told Museveni about his reservations concerning the Shs4bn the ruling party spent facilitating MPs to popularise Museveni in the countryside. His view was that this money would have made Museveni more popular if it was poured into farmer groups like the Nakaseke-based Namunkekera Rural Industrial Center (NRIC) which Saleh has been promoting for the last five years since 2009.
That he told his brother the current MPs have their own problems and using them to popularize a sitting incumbent would be such a big mistake. We are told Museveni concurred with Saleh and shared with him contents of the ISO report he (M7) received recently showing how MPs abused the Shs4bn released to them to popularize Kyankwanzi resolution.
The ISO report was a summary of the numerous reports DISOs have been doing to give Museveni an insight on how the MPs' tours performed in the different constituencies. In most areas, the ISO report shows, the MPs' tours didn't have the desired impact. We are told the report shows that in most cases MPs would congest the Sub County based consultative meetings with their campaign agents and the real delegates in some areas where sidelined.
"For many MPs the Shs4m per Sub County was an opportunity to reward their campaign agents whom they had never rewarded since entering the legislature in 2011.
Many of them were returning to meet these Sub Counties based campaign agents for the first time and used Mzee's money to appease people that had procured their victory three years ago," knowledgeable sources said.
"Mzee is furious they were pre-occupied with shielding themselves than explaining the more than 20 resolutions reached at Kyankwanzi. The resolution on creating an agricultural bank is something that could have given hope to many poverty stricken peasants but majority MPs never gave it the prominence it deserves during the Sub County-based tours," sources quoted from the ISO report.
That the ISO report speaks of a minister who went to Kigezi region and under declared the money that was given for the Sub County. Voters chased him saying they want social services before they endorse Kyankwanzi decisions.
The minister had declared Shs800,000 instead of Shs4m for the Sub County and after being chased the minister decided to go to a bar and bought booze for drunkards and used them to endorse the resolution for that Sub County.
Another minister who has no constituency volunteered to be facilitated to cover Barnabas Tinkasimire and Wilfred Niwagaba's constituencies and the outcome was the same Voters shunned the minister demanding for better roads and hospitals. "Even if you discounted Mbabazi's home turf of Kanungu where Kyankwanzi decision was out rightly rejected, Kigezi remains the hardest region to sell Kyankwanzi resolution," sources revealed.
We are told this is the reason Museveni is mending fences with the leadership of NRM youth league whose campaigning against Kyankwanzi resolution has been far more effective than MPs amongst who pocketed Mzee's Shs4bn. Museveni wants to use the youth league to hold regional conferences during which more momentum is expected to be built around the Kyankwanzi resolution.
He clearly believes the Shs4bn spent on the MPs was no value for money. In fact sources say Museveni wants reconciliation with the Mbabazi group having realised the extent to which the MPs' tours have fermented more intrigue and clique formation than was intended to be cured. Despite discouraging reporters from reporting it, many MPs used the consultative meetings to market the need for themselves too to be declared unopposed flag bearers and this is something Museveni rightly knows could cost NRM at the next elections.
SALEH GIVES UP
It's against this background that the President's brother Gen Salim Saleh is of the view that after 30 uninterrupted years in power his brother has done his part. "His view has been that Mzee has sacrificed a lot and done his part and believes his turning point should come in 2016," sources said adding that Saleh believes, all the way from the Entandikwa scheme of the 1990s to Bonnabagagawale of the 2000s, Museveni has tried and done it all but his efforts to transform Uganda have been betrayed by senior comrades in the struggle.
Sources say this is the reason Saleh is retiring to public life in Nakaseke-Luwero triangle where he wants to retire as a model farmer. His Namunkekera model farm already demonstrates the path he wants to take after 2016.
"He has been traversing villages in Elgon, Busoga, West Nile, Kiboga and now Nakaseke and his view is that his brother has been betrayed. He has been confiding in friends that he can't believe such high levels of poverty in the countryside after his brother has been president for 30 years.
This has been his argument to Museveni that his NRM revolution has done all that was humanly possible and should let go," concluded sources privy to recent interactions the two politically and militarily very powerful brothers have been having.
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